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KWITTING KYOTO

The Kyoto Protocol is a disaster in New Zealand, and now even those close to it in Canada are running away:

A team of officials responsible for a key part of the Kyoto implementation plan has been decimated by resignations, raising questions about whether insiders believe the plan can work ...

“The key people that we dealt with are almost all gone,” said John Bennett of the Sierra Club. “They had the expertise and the calculations and had negotiated with industry for a couple of years. They have to all be replaced.”

Natural Resources officials won’t speak on the record, but some privately mock Environment Canada’s Kyoto plan as little more than a fiction filled with soft numbers and wishful thinking.

Kyoto - a pretty scary but oft repeated scenario whereby the batty left come up with some yarn and the media buy into it boots and all.
What is worse is that they persist with the charade until it is totally trashed by reality.
MEMO TO NEWSPAPERS: try and employ journos with some ability to report the world in a sane and sensible manner.
What? ... you need to sell papers, and ... Harry Potter seems to sell well?

Is there a country anywhere that is more prone to meaningless, moralistic posturing than Canaduh?

Rule of thumb: Any proposal eagerly supported by Canadians will be driven by their compulsive craving for international attention and a pathological need to prove they are in some way superior to Americans.

Maybe we can get General Rick Hillier to speak firmly with Canadian environmental officials. Can’t hurt! At the very least, we don’t want New Foundland getting scrubbed clean. Maybe he can get the glaciers to concentrate on Montreal.

Canada (rather, Chreitien’s regime) hoped to get pollution credits from all of the natural gas that they sell to the U.S. When this was nixed, it appeared that Kyoto was really going to cost Canada something, and the enthusiasm just petered out.

I had also heard something about trees being factored into the equation, and how this didn’t pan out either, but don’t quote me on it.

Two bucks says that when the madness of Kyoto finally sinks in to the mensas of the left, they’ll claim it was some crafty neocon plot to undermine the economies of ‘progressive’ socialist democrat nations…

In seni-related news, the SMH covers the rainbow warrior tour of Australia, designed to highlight the fact that Australia is the largest exporter of coal, and the green hypocracy of Premier Bob Carr.
Most interesting bit?
That the journo covering the tour for the SMH, used to work for Greenpeace.
Who would have thunk it?

Canada was looking at sending $10 billion Cdn (about $1.25 U.S.) to Russia for carbon credits to help meet Kyoto’s targets. Canada also spent a mere $20 million advertising the World Famous ‘Rick Mercer’ “One Ton Challenge” to encourage ordinary Canadians reduce greenhouse gas emissions. It looks like it might work.

If Canada hands over 20% of it’s GDP to Russia each year, mothballs its’ coal and gas fired power plants, sends home 90% of its’ auto workers in Ontario, terminates Alberta’s million barrel a day oilsand projects and convinces a couple of dozen people in Montreal to take up the Rick Mercer challenge…Canada just might cut the 30% of emissions it needs to make the 1990 target. The Canadian government will also be working hard to make collecting welfare seem much less shameful.

Go get ‘em Captain Canuck!!! And don’t worry the rest of the world will be happy to fill in for ya.

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